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auth-oauth-device.js

GitHub OAuth Device authentication strategy for JavaScript

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@octokit/auth-oauth-device is implementing one of GitHub’s OAuth Device Flow.

Usage

Browsers Load @octokit/auth-oauth-device directly from esm.sh <script type="module"> import { createOAuthDeviceAuth } from "https://esm.sh/@octokit/auth-oauth-device"; </script>
Node Install with npm install @octokit/core @octokit/auth-oauth-device import { createOAuthDeviceAuth } from "@octokit/auth-oauth-device";

For OAuth Apps

const auth = createOAuthDeviceAuth({ clientType: "oauth-app", clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234", scopes: ["public_repo"], onVerification(verification) { // verification example // { // device_code: "3584d83530557fdd1f46af8289938c8ef79f9dc5", // user_code: "WDJB-MJHT", // verification_uri: "https://github.com/login/device", // expires_in: 900, // interval: 5, // };

console.log("Open %s", verification.verification_uri);
console.log("Enter code: %s", verification.user_code);

}, });

const tokenAuthentication = await auth({ type: "oauth", }); // resolves with // { // type: "token", // tokenType: "oauth", // clientType: "oauth-app", // clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234", // token: "...", /* the created oauth token / // scopes: [] / depend on request scopes by OAuth app */ // }

For GitHub Apps

GitHub Apps do not support scopes. Client IDs of GitHub Apps have a lv1. prefix. If the GitHub App has expiring user tokens enabled, the resulting authentication object has extra properties related to expiration and refreshing the token.

const auth = createOAuthDeviceAuth({ clientType: "github-app", clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef", onVerification(verification) { // verification example // { // device_code: "3584d83530557fdd1f46af8289938c8ef79f9dc5", // user_code: "WDJB-MJHT", // verification_uri: "https://github.com/login/device", // expires_in: 900, // interval: 5, // };

console.log("Open %s", verification.verification_uri);
console.log("Enter code: %s", verification.user_code);

}, });

const tokenAuthentication = await auth({ type: "oauth", }); // resolves with // { // type: "token", // tokenType: "oauth", // clientType: "github-app", // clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef", // token: "...", /* the created oauth token / // } // or if expiring user tokens are enabled // { // type: "token", // tokenType: "oauth", // clientType: "github-app", // clientId: "lv1.1234567890abcdef", // token: "...", / the created oauth token */ // refreshToken: "...", // expiresAt: "2022-01-01T08:00:0.000Z", // refreshTokenExpiresAt: "2021-07-01T00:00:0.000Z", // }

createOAuthDeviceAuth(options)

The createOAuthDeviceAuth method accepts a single options parameter

name type description
clientId string Required. Find your OAuth app’s Client ID in your account’s developer settings.
onVerification function Required. A function that is called once the device and user codes were retrievedThe onVerification() callback can be used to pause until the user completes step 2, which might result in a better user experience. const auth = createOAuthDeviceAuth({ clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234", onVerification(verification) { console.log("Open %s", verification.verification_uri); console.log("Enter code: %s", verification.user_code); await prompt("press enter when you are ready to continue"); }, });
clientType string Must be either oauth-app or github-app. Defaults to oauth-app.
request function You can pass in your own @octokit/request instance. For usage with enterprise, set baseUrl to the API root endpoint. Example:import { request } from "@octokit/request"; createOAuthDeviceAuth({ clientId: "1234567890abcdef1234", clientSecret: "secret", request: request.defaults({ baseUrl: "https://ghe.my-company.com/api/v3", }), });
scopes array of strings Only relevant if clientType is set to "oauth-app". Array of scope names enabled for the token. Defaults to []. See available scopes.

auth(options)

The async auth() method returned by createOAuthDeviceAuth(options) accepts the following options

name type description
type string Required. Must be set to "oauth"
scopes array of strings Only relevant if the clientType strategy options was set to "oauth-app" Array of scope names enabled for the token. Defaults to what was set in the strategy options. See available scopes
refresh boolean Defaults to false. When set to false, calling auth(options) will resolve with a token that was previously created for the same scopes if it exists. If set to true a new token will always be created.

Authentication object

The async auth(options) method resolves to one of three possible objects

  1. OAuth APP user authentication
  2. GitHub APP user authentication with expiring tokens disabled
  3. GitHub APP user authentication with expiring tokens enabled

The differences are

  1. scopes is only present for OAuth Apps
  2. refreshToken, expiresAt, refreshTokenExpiresAt are only present for GitHub Apps, and only if token expiration is enabled

OAuth APP user authentication

name type description
type string "token"
tokenType string "oauth"
clientType string "github-app"
clientId string The app's Client ID
token string The personal access token
scopes array of strings array of scope names enabled for the token

GitHub APP user authentication with expiring tokens disabled

name type description
type string "token"
tokenType string "oauth"
clientType string "github-app"
clientId string The app's Client ID
token string The personal access token

GitHub APP user authentication with expiring tokens enabled

name type description
type string "token"
tokenType string "oauth"
clientType string "github-app"
clientId string The app's Client ID
token string The user access token
refreshToken string The refresh token
expiresAt string Date timestamp in ISO 8601 standard. Example: 2022-01-01T08:00:0.000Z
refreshTokenExpiresAt string Date timestamp in ISO 8601 standard. Example: 2021-07-01T00:00:0.000Z

auth.hook(request, route, parameters) or auth.hook(request, options)

auth.hook() hooks directly into the request life cycle. It amends the request to authenticate correctly based on the request URL.

The request option is an instance of @octokit/request. The route/options parameters are the same as for the request() method.

auth.hook() can be called directly to send an authenticated request

const { data: user } = await auth.hook(request, "GET /user");

Or it can be passed as option to request().

const requestWithAuth = request.defaults({ request: { hook: auth.hook, }, });

const { data: user } = await requestWithAuth("GET /user");

Types

import { OAuthAppStrategyOptions, OAuthAppAuthOptions, OAuthAppAuthentication, GitHubAppStrategyOptions, GitHubAppAuthOptions, GitHubAppAuthentication, GitHubAppAuthenticationWithExpiration, } from "@octokit/auth-oauth-device";

How it works

GitHub's OAuth Device flow is different from the web flow in two ways

  1. It does not require a URL redirect, which makes it great for devices and CLI apps
  2. It does not require the OAuth client secret, which means there is no user-owned server component required.

The flow has 3 parts (see GitHub documentation)

  1. @octokit/auth-oauth-device requests a device and user code
  2. Then the user has to open https://github.com/login/device (or it's GitHub Enterprise Server equivalent) and enter the user code
  3. While the user enters the code, @octokit/auth-oauth-device is sending requests in the background to retrieve the OAuth access token. Once the user completed step 2, the request will succeed and the token will be returned

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

MIT